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A free one-day training course to learn everything you need to know to build your first mobile app!

As taken by hundreds of people in San Francisco, Austin, Amsterdam, Denver and Los Angeles!

Absolutely, positively, 100% free!

Join us to learn how to create mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone or mobile browsers! We will review the important mobile features of standards like HTML5 and CSS. You will learn how to use a mobile UI framework (jQuery Mobile), how to package your app with a native bridge (PhoneGap) and how to add app features with a Backend-as-a-Service (open-source Usergrid). By the end of the workshop, we will have built a fully-featured app, ready for release on the app store, without having written a single line of server-side code!

Program

8:30am: Doors open — registration and coffee

9am–noon: “Build your first mobile app with HTML5 and a Backend-as-a-Service”

Intro HTML5 and Mobile Apps

Building your static app (jQuery Mobile)

Load data dynamically into your app (Usergrid)

Make your code run as a native app on your Android or iOS device (PhoneGap)

Lunch (provided by Apigee)

1pm–4pm: “Building Social, Local or Gamification into your app”

We continue building our app from the morning and extend it in the direction of your choice!

Adding user accounts to your mobile app

Building social features: friends, follows and newsfeeds

Geolocation / Gamification (2 hours, pick your own adventure block from 2 prepared training scenarios, with room to make this app your own: you can choose to add a currency system, a one-one-one messaging system, a geotargetting element, etc. — allowing you take the morning app in a number of different directions)

A laptop with a mobile IDE (XCode, Eclipse for Android, etc.). Minimum required versions for your OS and IDE are as follows:If you want to target iOS:- Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) with XCode 4.2 instead of XCode 4.6+. Note: downloading old versions of XCode requires a paid Apple developer account, if you do not have one, just come to the training and we will provide you with a copy of XCode- Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) with XCode 4.6 and the iOS 6.1 SDK- Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) with XCode 4.6, and the iOS 6.1 SDKIf you want to target Android:- Linux with latest Android Developer Tools and the JDK 6 installed- Windows 32 or 64 bit, Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8, with the latest Android Developer Tools and JDK 6 installed.- Mac OS X 10.5.8 or above with the latest Android Developer Tools and the JDK 6 installed.

The latest PhoneGap/Cordova (as of this writing: 2.5.0) — the steps are documented in these guides. Please make sure you can launch the default (empty) PhoneGap project into your emulator: you should see the droid with the flashing green text load up correctly before you come to the training (step 5A of the Android guide, step “Results” of the iOS guide, step 5 of the Windows Phone guide). If you are trying to target Android and get an Ant error when using the “create” utility, you can try copying the phonegap-2.5.0/lib/android/example folder instead (the create utility generates the same file structure). Adobe PhoneGap and Apache Cordova are the same thing, so don’t be confused by the difference (Cordova is the open-source name, PhoneGap the product name).

About the Instructor

This one-day training session will be taught by Tim Anglade, public speaker, former Computer Science lecturer, and Head of Developer Programs at Apigee. Tim has spoken about app development around the world, from OSCON to Oredev & GoGaRuco, and met with mobile app developers from Silicon Valley to Seoul. He most recently gave this training in San Francisco, San Jose, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Austin and Denver. You can find him on Twitter as @timanglade.

You’re sold? Need to convince your boss? Well, just tell him about all the things you’ll get to learn in just one day!

If you’re a web designer, you will learn how to design interfaces for mobile websites and mobile apps quickly, and even how to implement them on your own into working prototypes, allowing your to tackle your company’s mobile projects this year

If you’re a front-end engineer, you will learn how to build mobile applications that look & feel like native apps, using the tools you’re already proficient with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery

If you’re a native app developer, you will learn another way to build mobile apps, that allows your company to quickly launch projects for multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, etc.) using the same codebase!

If you’re already an HTML5 or advanced app developer, you will learn how to use a Backend-as-a-service to quickly prototype, deploy and efficiently scale your company’s mobile apps without needing a backend team to keep it running.

If you’re a backend developer, you will learn everything you need to know about the constraints of developing & launching mobile apps, what it means for backend architectures, and how large companies with tens of thousands of employees and millions of users manager their data backends for mobile apps

In just one day, you will learn everything you need to build real apps on your own. Past example includes: store locator, employee directory, Yelp-like app, mobile intranet, HR applicant tracker, lunch ordering system, conference app, room reservation system, and many more! Spend one day in this training and you’ll have the tools to tackle any mobile project your boss or customer throws at you.

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